Top designers and architects create perfect spaces for family dinners and entertaining

“We created a modernist aesthetic that still expresses warmth,” designer Katherine Newman says of her Toronto house, which she renovated with her partner, architect Peter Cebulak. The dining room overlooks a garden. The painting is French Wig, 1998, by Gary Komarin. A 19th-century Russian crystal chandelier illuminates the ivory-lacquered table that she and Cebulak designed. (September 2005)